kornation

To clarify some things I wrote earlier...

The bug was a joke, we even take the piss out of it.

Stuntman argued I was wrong on the account of mpg and selling, pointing out the Ford Focus, and he's right, its Euro's best seller, but it isn't American made nor designed, it was designed by Ford Europe in Cologne, while some profits do go back to USA it mainly stays in Europe.

The American Focus and the Focus's sold elseware are different cars. The availability of lower mpg versions is also different, The American Focus (least mpg available in USA) does 31.6mpg, the rest of the world focus (least mpg available) is 42.2 mpg, if I included diesel that would be 54.9 mpg.

Some also argued that General Motors also sell well elsewhere as well, they do, but with company's they bought from those markets and still design and sell their own cars, Vauxall/Opal and Daewoo.

People also argue that its cause of safety standards (Hi Jake B), the Euro safety standards are higher than USA's, we even include pedestrian safety requirements for people who might get hit by your car, and Japanese cars have a lot of new tech included that won't reach any other shores for years to come, yet still have lower mpg's, all you need to do is see the average MPG of an American car compared to a Euro or Japanese (or even emerging Indian cars.) and see its broken (btw heads up, according to MSNBC, 40mpg Euro - 20.4mpg US).

People are getting Patriotic here, that's not the point, the market is now global and you have to be able to sell to all markets, Hummer, Chrysler, Buick, Cadillac, Chevrolet, Pontiac, GMC, Lincoln, Mercury, Dodge & Jeep are all American badges, and designed for the American market, but unless they change to suit the world they will not sell well elsewhere.

I agree Joker, My car is from '72 (a Bond Bug) and it gets more Mpg that that hunka trash, also more stylish lol.

American cars have terrible Mpg, and are oversized so don't sell well outside of America, but because European and Japanese cars are small and not so thirsty they can sell anywhere.

And now the US Govt is giving them a bailout, well done, probably getting what they've paid the senate in backhanders back, here's an idea for helping your company and your country, sell something that will sell around the world and give better rewards for your dough, cause a cup holder just don't fly over here.

I forgot to add, this law applies from receiving the product, so if you get a replacement 7 months after first buying it and 7 months later it mess's up again, it only counts the last 7 months of ownership of current product, not the 14months since the original was bought.

http://www.ftc.gov/bcp/edu/pubs/consumer/products/pro17.shtm

Implied Warranty, reason why I have never bought warranty for a product ever.

It basically states that Microsoft and the store implied that your product would...

A. Do as advertised (i.e. play games and watch movies.)

B. Last a reasonable time doing what it was meant to do (so don't use it to hammer nails into a board.)

The extra warranty you buy at a store only adds protection in case you do something stupid like spill coffee over it, even then not all warranty's have accidental clause included so your basically have 2 warranty's doing the same thing, one provided by law and one paid for.

This law also goes over borders, I'm from England yet we have the same law, so does virtually all of Europe and Canada, so as long as you use whatever you bought as it was meant to be used and you don't mess around with it, its covered.

NFL is recording in 3D over the next season to test it out, the first game being Chargers Vs Raiders, as 3DTV sets are not out in the market yet its being streamed to 3D theatres in Los Angeles, New York and Boston.

This is going to be... next week I believe, and this isn't the first time they tested it, they tested it out in 2004 at the Super Bowl, but that wasn't streamed live, but recorded and played back.

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20081124-now-were-talking-sports-fans-nfl-to-demo-3-d-technology.html

The returnability (wow nice made-up word!) factor also depends on which format you bought, and believe the PC version would simply outlast the 360 purely down to the modding community.

I can see within 3 months of the Hammer update every major city having their own 'L4D real-mod' with the local modding community & game colleges trying to recreate their own 'spot', adding in back streets and areas not normally visited onto the landmark strewn 'end scenes' to help with the flow of the game.

This game format is better suited to this than any of the previous Valve games (although there was a pretty sweet Montreal mod made for HL2.), I can't wait to start making one for Birmingham UK.

Slot load drives are there, they wasn't reliable enough by the time the original Xbox was released but the 360 was, see the Wii, Mac Mini, countless laptop drives and more.

My 360 has a terrible time opening up the disc drive, it wont open sometimes, sometimes it will open and shut straight away, others it will open and won't shut or open half-way and shut itself, add this to the 360 disc drive scratching problems etc and the slot drive seems like the bright idea.

Wow, great! In the interest of trying to keep impartiality on this site, I provide an opposing view.

http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=DsHUBEfBNMo

Language Warning! Penn & Teller's Bullsh*t report on PETA.

ummm, whut?

I have a refuse to electricity plant within view of my window (its quite good looking actually, and doesnt stink) - its been there for 12 years.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyseley_Energy_from_Waste_Plant

how is this any different?

Doesn't matter who owns the writers rights, you can record any song and just pay the music unions representatives who sort out who gets what (RIAA I believe in USA), the rights for the recorded versions thou are copyrighted and owned by a corp/person at anyone time and only they can say if that recording can be used.